WSUS: Clients fail to update with error code 0x80190194
Here's a great tip from Rob Coffey, a real life WSUS support engineer from North Carolina. We've seen reports of this occurring if you upgrade to WSUS Service Pack 1 and then remove the SP although I haven't been able to confirm this myself. If you have a bunch of clients trying to get updates and failing with a 0x80190194 error then this may be something to check:
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Issue: When checking for updates, clients may all fail with a 0x80190194 error.
Cause: This can occur if the selfupdate virtual directory has been removed or is missing from the Default Web Site.
Resolution: To resolve this issue we will need to reconfigure the selfupdate virtual directory. To do this:
- Open the IIS Manager console
- Drill down to the Default Web Site, right click it and select New -> Virtual Directory
- For the alias use Selfupdate and for the path point to the Selfupdate directory. It should be something like C:Program FilesUpdate ServicesSelfupdate.
- Forward through the wizard selecting all the defaults.
Once your done test it out - you should be able to successfully get updates now assuming everything else is working properly.
More Information: The client starts its detection cycle by checking if it's running a compatible version of the client prior to talking to the WSUS server. This is done by downloading https://wsusservername/selfupdate/wuident.cab, therefore if the selfupdate virtual directory has been removed or is missing then the clients will fail with the 0x80190194 error when attempting to check for the wident.cab file.
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Thanks Rob!
J.C. Hornbeck | Manageability Knowledge Engineer
Comments
- Anonymous
January 01, 2003
PingBack from http://baalchina.nau.edu.cn/2008/09/wsus-0x80190194/ - Anonymous
April 19, 2013
I have a similar problem. Using Win7 Ultimate 64-bit, I uninstalled SP1. Attempting to reinstall SP1 gives this error, though I never installed IIS and have never heard of WSUS. - Anonymous
February 08, 2014
Windows update error 0x80190194 occurs due to missing DLL files in the System. Windows unable to run the program. It is well recommended to you that download Registry cleaner tool which will recover and fix all DLL files from the System. for more information to fix windows update error 0x80190194 open this link. http://www.fixwindowsupdateerror0x80190194.com/